I have a problem that I'm not sure has a solution.

[Fuddy1952]

Not a battle I'm likely to win. This morning, the whole north side of the house was dripping wet with dew just as if there had been a sprinkler running. The lawn further out and downslope was also much more wet with dew than anywhere else in the yard. Something about that area being sheltered somehow.

A big fan to keep the air moving might help, but at what cost?

Love to see pictures.
How's inside the house? Half of our house is on concrete slab, original half has a crawl space. We run a dehumidifier if it gets over 60% or so on hygrometer. A closet that stayed musty I put a couple small computer fans in to create negative air pressure. They blow air out.

 

[two_bit_score]

A spring at the top of a hill, an armadillo invasion, and now it's getting spidery.
I think I'd move somewhere normal like Hooterville.

:laughing: or petticoat junction :laughing:

 

[stuckmotor]

:laughing: or petticoat junction :laughing:

I think Transylvania has better road signs than Lower Uncton.

 

[two_bit_score]

I think Transylvania has better road signs than Lower Uncton.

:drink:

 

[Fuddy1952]

Hooterville and Petticoat both were pretty towns!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Which one would you go for?

 

[CADplans]

Plant a couple weeping willows,,
my SIL did that in a wet spot,, it actually helped,,

Those weeping willows must evaporate a TON of water,,, I have a poplar that dries up and kills the grass on a hillside,
I had to landscape it with stone, no grass or other vegetation would grow, that tree sucked up so much water.

 

[CADplans]

If you do a french drain, put WAY oversized pipe in it,,

We installed a french drain, 3 feet wide, 6 feet deep, 150 feet long (we used three 100 foot coils of pipe)

The 150 foot long trench has the bottom on a continuous down hill slope.
LOTS (maybe 30 tons) of 57's were put in the trench, and the pipe was wrapped in landscape fabric.
Well, the slightest rain, those two 4" pipes run full,,
a hard rain can cause surface water like there is no french drain.

It is MUCH better than it was, but, it is less than perfect.

The area will dry up weeks faster. :thumbsup:

 

[Fuddy1952]

If you do a french drain, put WAY oversized pipe in it,,

We installed a french drain, 3 feet wide, 6 feet deep, 150 feet long (we used three 100 foot coils of pipe)

The 150 foot long trench has the bottom on a continuous down hill slope.
LOTS (maybe 30 tons) of 57's were put in the trench, and the pipe was wrapped in landscape fabric.
Well, the slightest rain, those two 4" pipes run full,,
a hard rain can cause surface water like there is no french drain.

It is MUCH better than it was, but, it is less than perfect.

The area will dry up weeks faster.

Very true. My house and driveway is on crest of hill. Garage is below drive about 50 ft and about 3 ft downhill. Everything was ok when gravel, then I had everything paved.
My excavator neighbor and I dug a ditch from ground level, right side away from 4ft sidewalk, then 100 ft to left end about 6ft deep (so tapered), around side then out downhill. Ditch 1ft wide, #57 gravel in bottom then 6" corrugated drain pipe (150 ft total), tons of 57's on top. At first, wow, you could pour a 5 gallon bucket water right side and it rushed out downhill in no time! Then in few months didn't work so well, so I put a grate in every 20 ft. Then that stopped. Now a hard rain the amount of water is amazing...like a river!
I guess leaves, etc. get in over time.
Sure with I had used more pipe.

 

[two_bit_score]

Cedar Trees soak up a lot of ground water. Plant some and harvest for posts later.